PBS Chairman Broke Law

[Judi Lynn]

PBS CHAIRMAN BROKE LAW

Friday, November 25, 2005 - FreeMarketNews.com

Kenneth Tomlinson, the former chairman of PBS broke federal laws by using political tests to hire employees including the corporation’s new president, according to the Associated Press. Internal investigators also found other incidents of using his Republican bias to alter programming.

Tomlinson threatened to block the funding of programs until they were changed to present more conservative viewpoints. He also broke regulations outlined in the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967, which prohibited him from dealing directly with the conservative “Journal Editorial Report.”
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Kenneth Tomlinson

[politicaholic]

1. Good riddence to bad repubish. n/t

[NanceGreggs]

2. It's getting to the point ...

... where nightly news programs will just read off the names of
'non-indicted, non-under investigation, non-convicted' Republicans -- otherwise, they're all going to have to expand their news programming to twenty-hours a day.

[go west young man]

3. I hope the good folks at PBS who weather this asshole

get the Corp back on track. America needs PBS the way it was. We have enough right wing madness in the MSM.

[dpbrown]

4. Ken Tomlinson is a tool

What a pathetic nutball for the wacky far wrong.

[existentialist]

15. "the far wrong"

I have to say that phrase has a nice ring to it.

[PoiBoy]

5. So... is there an indictment in his future?

I would hope that this is deserving of a criminal indictment... but he'll no doubt get the proverbial slap on the wrist and another high ranking appointment to another board or commision somewhere else... :shrug:

[UpInArms]

7. breaking the law and being held accountable are mutually

exclusive when it comes to the GOPpiggies.

[Zorra]

6. All republicans are corrupt. Dig deep enough into a republican's

financial, political, or sexual past and 90% of the time you will uncover some scummy immoral, unethical, or illegal deed.

The other 10% of republicans have covered their tracks well enough so that their corruption can't be discovered.

You have to have something intrinsically wrong with you, in a moral and/or ethical sense, in order to be a republican.

I hope the American people have enough sense to come out en masse and vote all republicans out of office in the next few years.

It's going to be tough to do this, though; we are going to have to get enough votes to override the fixed results of electronic voting machines.

[suziedemocrat]

18. My thoughts EXACTLY!!! 100%

[lovuian]

8. This is just another example how the Republicans tryed to

take over the News Media and make Big Bird a propoganda machine!!!

[Angry Girl]

9. Ok, NOW can we torture him?

Please, please, please?

[Elidor]

12. Well...okay. Just this once.

But go easy on the waterboarding.

[Catrina]

17. Well, I'm against torture

but then, piling him up in a naked pyramid with panties on his head, forcing him to do certain sexual acts with, let's say for arguments sake because we need them to be truthful, Abramoff, Scanlon, Libby, Tom Delay, Safavian and a few others not yet charged with anything, woudn't be torture, would it? That's just 'college hazing' as I understand it from the ditto head brigade. And video-taping it wouldn't be a problem either from all rightwing accounts ~ throwing Rush Limbaugh into the mix might make it more fun!

Otoh, the very thought of such a spectacle, while fun for rightwingers, would be torture for the rest of us to witness ~ so forget I mentioned it.

[Canuckistanian]

20. And let's bring Lynndie England out of jail

And get her to point at his genitals. And I want pictures, lots of 'em!

[Catrina]

21. Good idea, but this time she might need

a magnifying glass!! :rotf:

[Gyre]

10. Why are almost all repiglicans rather porcine?

I'd like to see that chubby little fuck running naked down the streets of Oakland at 2 am. Film at 10.:evilgrin:

Gyre

[stepnw1f]

11. I Was Just Thinking the Same Thing (nt)

[CTyankee]

13. Yeah, nice.....

wouldn't we love to see that!!!!

[No Exit]

14. Maybe, just maybe, THIS will be the one that takes Pigface Rove down

Because IIRC this man had a whole set of very interesting e-mail conversations with Pigboy Rove.

[randr]

16. Wasn't he the chair of CPB?

I thought he chaired the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
The CPB was set up as a committee to channel funding to public broadcasting entities so as eliminate the political influence and distribute funds fairly though out the system. It was the very by-laws of CPB that Tomlinson broke, by-laws in place to eliminate even the appearance of political impropriety.
His departure and possible indictment , IMO, are further proof that beneath the slime of Washington politics, there are still those who seek the truth and are willing to attack the scum that the * administration has placed in charge of our institutions.

[Cleita]

19. Yes, it is against the law to hire people because of their

politics or religion, as well as not to hire them for the same reasons. I was once interviewed by a company who sent me on a second interview because I was a Catholic. (This company was a manufacturer and had nothing to do with religion.) On the second interview they asked me what I thought of the present Cardinal of the Archdiocese. I told them in politer terms that I thought he was an ass. Needless to say I didn't get the job. This was back in the days that you could discriminate about these things.

[HereSince1628]

22. Ever think the GOP needs 10-12 in Marion rather than 2-6 years in DC?

The party of corruption is running for longer and longer terms, do you suppose there will be enough of them incarcerated together to lay claim their own tables in the dining hall, or maybe claim the softball field as "their" territory?